Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 130gr swift Scirocco in 6.5

Have been using 130g Sirocco II's for a decade now and love the way they shoot. 6.5-06AI, 3161fps with IMR 7828SSC. HAve never shot paper at 600 but can get about 40-45% hits on clay pigeons at that range, when the xwind cooperates. Interarms Mark X, fluted/heavy Krieger barrel bedded into Boyd laminate stock.

I loaded it last year for my Barrett 6.5 Swede. I'm not satisfied with the load as far as accuracy goes. I"m getting right at an inch or maybe a little under 1 MOA at 2660 FPS. I'm still tinkering with the load, working with different primers and seating depth. The bullet is devastating on game though. I killed 4 hogs and a whitetail with it at ranges from 60 yards to 150. One hog weighed close to 300 pounds and it blew through him like hot butter. I didn't do an autopsy on the pigs, but the heart/lungs of the whitetail were jelly.

I just started working with the 130 Sirocco for my 6.5 PRC. I used Hodgdon's load data for H1000, but never loaded it to the book max. I loaded 57.5/58.0/58.5 grains over a CCI 200 and seated .030 off the lands for a ogive length of 2.277 in my CA Mesa. The load looks promising. I've gone back to that load and seated them .040 off the lands and will test them next weekend if the weather is fair. I've got another test batch using the CCI Br-2 primer at 0.030 off the lands. I haven't chrono'd anything just yet.

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